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LaDivine Marie NDiaye Review

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Book Blast review of Ladivine by Marie NDiaye translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016 “She had known from the start, before she could even speak or […]
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Landing Laia Fàbregas Review

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“When you’re rooted in yourself, you feel settled wherever you go. I guess to feel good we need to find places to adapt to. Except once we’ve adapted we need to move on, to find […]
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Laia Fàbregas Author Interview

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Samantha Schnee Translator Interview

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Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq Two deliciously dark novels by Marie Darrieussecq reviewed for BookBlast by @emily.unwin 
How to Make a Woman @fittzcarraldoeditions and Our Life in the Forest @transitbooks form a razor-sharp social duet dissecting womanhood, autonomy and the disturbing pressures of modern existence. 
If you love unsettling, atmospheric French fiction that lingers in the mind, The Handmaid’s Tale, or feminist dystopias, these are perfect reads.
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This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collecti This week, BookBlast brings you a curated collection of some of the best contemporary writing from Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. These translations capture the wit, grit and complex soul of the Balkan peninsula past and present. 
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